This info is from the perspective of a Vox Telecom employee in the Cloud Services Division of the Core Department around the year 2020. It is to give information to prospective employees as it is hard to get truthful first hand evidence about companies. Most times you only know how it truly is once you […]
Is migrating a wordpress site to a different architecture setup worth it? This post compares an old architecture to a new architecture. The new architecture is uses a different web server and php gateway. Old architecture: Apache and mod_php New architecture: Nginx and php-fpm Below I run a web page speed test and a load […]
What is the difference between the packages available for telkom wireless data? It is confusing for tech savvy people – probably more so for the general public Wireless is an internet connection using cell phone towers that are 3g, 4g (LTE) and 5g. The 3g, 4g and 5g are standards agreed upon that allow for […]
An article on AWS costs was seen and it was thought decent to convert it to rands from dollars… Taking R:$ as 15 Component $/month R/Month 1 modern vCPU (4 AWS ECUs) 43 645 With 1 year convertible reservation 43 645 With 3 years convertible reservation 30 450 With spot pricing (estimated) 30 450 1 […]
This is the post that has subsequently been removed by Addy – probably due to Google’s notorious legal contract to prevent exposing anything about working for company. The Internet is forever… Update August 2022: Mistaken early deployment due to a "github action" – was the apparent reason from addy’s blog Start of the Original May […]